Google’s strategy to counter AWS: Acquire mission critical AWS workloads. Will it work?

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(2)

Google has been on an aggressive buying spree on cloud. But they are acquiring only a specific kind of companies: the companies that support a mission critical AWS workload. Google has bought many companies in cloud, that were either only supporting AWS, or primarily supporting AWS workloads. Below are some examples of such acquisitions.

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AWS CodeBuild: A Fully Managed Build Tool

Posted on February 16, 2017 by CloudThat | Comments(3)

Integrate Code, Build Artifact, Manage release. If you know the pain of these processes you might need to look at AWS CodeBuild. Maintaining a project developed by many team members concurrently which is composed of different functions, environment, and languages, AWS CodeBuild is here to help you.

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Ramifications of Microsoft Azure’s Strategic Shift towards Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) Partners

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(2)

Microsoft Azure is giving a tough fight to AWS in the public cloud market. Its no secret that AWS, with its 6 years of headstart in IaaS segment has more market share and more services. The latest announcement by Microsoft about Azure pay-as-you-go model not available in the MPSA licensing model gives us a hint on the strategic initiative by Microsoft Azure to capture more market share.

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Why do we opt for AWS Mumbai Region as an Indian cloud customer?

Posted on September 9, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Are you an Indian AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Customer? Do you want to adopt AWS Mumbai Region for your production?

Then we have an analysis for you which will help you to decide whether to go for AWS Mumbai Region or not. In this blog, we’ll look at aspects like “cost comparison, services availability, S3 object download speed test, latency check, compliance” between near and famous regions.

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2016 IT Skills and Salary Report

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

We recently had Global Knowledge 2016 IT Skills and Salary Report published.

This report proves that with fast moving technology landscape, trainings are becoming more important than ever before. Training remains one of the most important aspect of global workforce, especially when reports like Zinnov’s prediction that 25% of global IT workforce will become redundant in few years.

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Still Wondering, Why to Opt for Docker?

Posted on July 15, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

When I first started learning about Docker few months back, I had just got transferred from my companies AWS team and to be honest I was a little skeptical about technology but thankfully, my manager was an expert in the field and I attended one of his trainings to get an overview of Docker. Soon, we started containerizing our AWS environment with Amazon ECS.

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